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In 2004, The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker made its welcome initial appearance: a massive, 650-page tome, featuring all 68,647 cartoons, in a combination of disks and text, that had ever been published to that point.
Fourteen years later, to equal acclaim, a sister publication has arrived, this time in the form of an encyclopaedia. Featuring the same editor, Bob Mankoff - a celebrated cartoonist himself - one can now enjoy an anthology, well over twice the length of its predecessor, sans CDs, laid out by topic as a 2-volume set; and highly amusing it is. Including hundreds of period classics from the likes of Peter Arno, Chas. Addams, Price and the inimitable Booth, it also sports such later luminaries as Chast, Sempe and Koren, 150 in all.
While this is not the sort of thing to take to bed with you - it weighs 14 pounds and runs a full 1500 pages in length - as a compendium of hilarity, it can hardly be beat. A notably humorous celebration of an incomparable institution that will soon be a hundred years old (and a bit of a bargain to boot: the book, that is).
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In 2004, The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker made its welcome initial appearance: a massive, 650-page tome, featuring all 68,647 cartoons, in a combination of disks and text, that had ever been published to that point.
Fourteen years later, to equal acclaim, a sister publication has arrived, this time in the form of an encyclopaedia. Featuring the same editor, Bob Mankoff - a celebrated cartoonist himself - one can now enjoy an anthology, well over twice the length of its predecessor, sans CDs, laid out by topic as a 2-volume set; and highly amusing it is. Including hundreds of period classics from the likes of Peter Arno, Chas. Addams, Price and the inimitable Booth, it also sports such later luminaries as Chast, Sempe and Koren, 150 in all.
While this is not the sort of thing to take to bed with you - it weighs 14 pounds and runs a full 1500 pages in length - as a compendium of hilarity, it can hardly be beat. A notably humorous celebration of an incomparable institution that will soon be a hundred years old (and a bit of a bargain to boot: the book, that is).
More humour book videos at:
bookreviewsandvideos.com/category/humorous-books-reviewed
